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My Agent Was Never Slow. My Tasks Were Serial.

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I spent a week trying to make my agent faster. I profiled the model, switched inference backends, cut the context size. It got maybe 15% faster and my day did not change. Then I looked at where the wall clock actually went, and the answer was embarrassing: the agent was waiting, and I had queued ev…

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  1. 2026-10-21 02:09 · DEV Community — AI
    My Agent Was Never Slow. My Tasks Were Serial.

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